How to send HTTP Post to URL (third party software) in JSP/JSPDynpage

Question

Hello,
we want to integrate a third party application in our Portal Component (JSPDynpage using JSP and HTMLB). This third party component is called like this:
http://servername:port/cgi-bin/cgi.exe?request=map&format=html&swldy_ace=GDF&swldy_image_format=p n g&width=525&height=375
How can we do this in the JSP using HTMLB?
Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
Daniel

Answer 1

Hi Detlev,
thanks for your hint regarding the App. Integrator, but it seemn not to be what we want to do: We call a CGI and get a JEPG Image back as request.
Now we used the java.net.URLConnection to do the HTTP post in the JSPDynpage:
// send HTTP POST
try {
  u = new URL("http://server/path/ourcgi.exe");
} catch(MalformedURLException ex) {
  System.err.println("MalformedURLException");
// build query sting      
String query = "request=plot&format=jpeg&template_name=......."
int cl = query.length();
try {
  // open the connection and prepare it to POST
  URLConnection uc = u.openConnection();
  uc.setDoOutput(true);
  uc.setDoInput(true);
  uc.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
  DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(uc.getOutputStream());
  dos.writeBytes(query);
  dos.close();
} catch ...
Best regards,
Daniel